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ARC: Enabling the Multimedia Revolution
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Consumers around the globe are using a growing number of electronic products to capture, share, and play higher quality multimedia content. Supplying award-winning technology that improves these multimedia experiences at lower development cost to the manufacturer presents a significant market opportunity and is a key part of ARC’s strategy.
ARC International develops and licenses multimedia intellectual property (IP) in the form of Sound-to-Silicon solutions, multimedia subsystems, configurable processors, and related technologies to more than 150 companies worldwide. ARC maintains a worldwide presence with corporate and research and development offices in San Jose and Lake Tahoe in California, St. Albans, England, St. Petersburg, Russia, and Hyderabad, India.
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“We use ARC because it’s an industry standard and its low power profile.”
- Intel, an ARC customer
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ARC’s Business Model
Consumer devices are becoming more complex due to the growing number of features and functions being added with each successive generation of product. To help mitigate associated development costs and get to market more quickly, electronics companies are increasingly outsourcing the design of critical functions to leading specialists. Today ARC International is recognized as the leader in audio and video solutions that enhance the multimedia experience at significantly lower cost to the manufacturer. ARC derives contract revenue from each customer licensing agreement, and royalty revenue when customers’ ARC-Based™ devices ship to market. Today, more than 150 companies ship hundreds of millions of ARC-Based™ products annually in devices such as PCs, laptops, cell phones, digital TVs, set-top boxes, flash memory cards, and portable media players.
“Audio on the HP TouchSmart PC is simply amazing.”
- HP, an ARC customer
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| PCs and Laptops |
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Digital and Mobile TVs |
HP's TouchSmart PC
with ARC Sonic Focus software
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ARC-Based chips power
China Digital TV's tuner products
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| Set-Top Boxes |
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Media Enabled Cell Phones |
Sharp's AQUOS Blu-Ray Set-Top Box
with ARC-Based chips |
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ARC technology empowers internet
and TV functionality on mobile phones |
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| Flash Devices |
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Portable Media Players |
SanDisk relies on ARC technology for its
industry leading Flash products |
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ARC-Based chips
enhance portable media products |
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“We are pleased to standardize a key element of our technology strategy on ARC.”
- Broadcom, an ARC customer
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